Petapixel photography and the limits of camera information capacity

David J. Brady; Daniel L. Marks; Steven Feller; Michael Gehm; Dathon Golish; Esteban Vera; David Kittle

doi:10.1117/12.2014274

14 February 2013 Petapixel photography and the limits of camera information capacity

David J. Brady, Daniel L. Marks, Steven Feller, Michael Gehm, Dathon Golish, Esteban Vera, David Kittle

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Proceedings Volume 8657, Computational Imaging XI; 86570B (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2014274
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2013, Burlingame, California, United States

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The monochromatic single frame pixel count of a camera is limited by diffraction to the space-bandwidth product, roughly the aperture area divided by the square of the wavelength. We have recently shown that it is possible to approach this limit using multiscale lenses for cameras with space bandwidth product between 1 and 100 gigapixels. When color, polarization, coherence and time are included in the image data cube, camera information capacity may exceed 1 petapixel/second. This talk reviews progress in the construction of DARPA AWARE gigapixel cameras and describes compressive measurement strategies that may be used in combination with multiscale systems to push camera capacity to near physical limits.

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David J. Brady, Daniel L. Marks, Steven Feller, Michael Gehm, Dathon Golish, Esteban Vera, and David Kittle "Petapixel photography and the limits of camera information capacity", Proc. SPIE 8657, Computational Imaging XI, 86570B (14 February 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2014274

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Image processing

Image acquisition

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